Don't even get me STARTED on why we don't celebrate on May 1 like everyone else
Gil Thorp, 9/2/24 Happy Labor Day, everybody! I guess it's now an annual tradition for a continuity strip character to appear as Rosie the Riveter to promote...
Don't want my furniture talking or even thinking. Sorry if that's not "politically correct"
Mary Worth, 9/1/24 Hey guys! Sorry I didn't keep you up to date on the big drama at the Santa Royale Veterinarians Convention, which is that Dr. Ed ran into...
Sammy, stand up for yourself. We're on a deadline here
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith 8/31/24 You know, I've been doing this blog for two decades now, and yet somehow until today I've never paused to ask myself...
![Looks like somebody got ... [puts on sunglasses] ... burned](https://joshreads.com/images/24/08/i240830gilthorp.jpg)
Looks like somebody got ... [puts on sunglasses] ... burned
Gil Thorp, 8/30/24 America yearns to know: What's up with the beloved new character "Torch" in Gil Thorp? Have we figured out if "Torch" is his first name,...
Somebody else planned this convention, so no, you'll actually find it considerably more difficult
Beetle Bailey, 8/29/24 I was going to say that Beetle's whining here is unrealistic, as well as being literally, legally insubordinate, but you know what?...
There's not a MONOPOLY on violence exactly, but those IOUs are essentially legal tender
Dick Tracy, 8/28/24 I guess the woman in the final panel is supposed to be looking up at a big screen, but it really looks like she's rolling her eyes in...
Tuesday quickies
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 8/27/24 Ha, get it, you thought she wanted Ernie to stop smoking tobacco, a dangerous and expensive habit ... but in fact,...
Space is the place ... for love
Dick Tracy, 8/26/24 Someone who's had some weird romance arcs in his time is Junior, Dick Tracy's son in the comic strip Dick Tracy. Long ago he was married...
Karaoke wedding band ... you heard it here first
Pardon My Planet, 8/25/24 Ha ha, you guys, you know how Superman has heat vision, right? Well, what if -- hear me out -- what if he was out with his...
Ed's talking like a man who wants to get outflanked by an armored division at his own wedding
Marvin and Hi and Lois, 8/24/24 Jeff ... Hi ... you morons. You idiots. You absolute fools. You're already looking ahead to the passage of time, to the day...
Metapost: The week is done, the comments are here
Friday = comment of the week day, LET'S DO THIS: "Mary pounding at the window, desperate to hear more about this estranged cousin situation. Former best...
Libya was an ITALIAN colony, you imbecile machine
Crock, 8/23/24 An interesting phenomenon in the daily comics is that often during the strip's genesis, the creators come up with an odd conceit or bit that...
It really is fun. The comics are fun!
Mary Worth, 8/22/24 Oh, he's listening, Estelle -- he's just horrified that you would think that, as a vet, he'd be OK with a zoo themed wedding. He has to...
Hey, have we established whether Estelle has ever had a real job
Judge Parker, 8/21/24 You know, back in the day, young Sophie was real nerd who used to spend a lot of time on laptops analyzing grim data about wars and...
Bad scenes
Rex Morgan, M.D., 8/20/24 Look, I've been to plenty of comedy open mics in my time, and the thing you have to keep in mind about them is that they are...
Estelle's really yelling "ESTRANGED" to try to pique Ed's interest and it's not working
Slylock Fox, 8/19/24 Slylock is not alarmed because he knows about the square cube law, which dictates that this unnaturally enlarged mosquito's body will...
The Ghost Who Metas
The Phantom, 8/18/24 A fun running bit in The Phantom is that we sometimes see original Phantom creator Lee Falk going about his day in pre-war Manhattan,...
Saturday nightmares
Bizarro, 8/17/24 Hey, have you heard of the concept of "burial at sea?" Well, get this, what if there's a sort of cool party guy -- you know, the kind who...
Metapost: Highway to the COTW zone
It's Friday morning, and you know what that means: your comment of the week has arrived: "Folks said please and thankee! That's it! Folks only knew two...
Mmm ... slop
Blondie, 8/16/24 This strip may on first read seem entirely incoherent, but I actually think it nicely captures many people's instinctive take on generative...